A Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains, consisting of coloured illustrations selected from Parkinson's "Organic remains of a former world," and Artis's "Antediluvian phytology."

by Gideon Algernon Mantell

Plate LXI.

PLATE LXI.

Fossil Cephalopoda, &c.

Fig. 1. Part of the cast of a species of Hamite (Hamites intermedius, of Sowerby), from the Gait of Folkstone. The name Hamites was employed by Mr. Parkinson to designate a genus of chambered shells, in which the direction of the spire, instead of being straight, as in Baculites, or discoidal, as in Ammonites, was bent like a hook beyond the inner reflected part. All the specimens here figured are but fragments.[55]

[55] Medals of Creation, vol. ii. p. 500.

Figs. 2, & 5. Portions of Hamites intermedius, of Sowerby.

Fig. 3. Hamites plicatilis, of Sowerby.

Fig. 4. A fragment of Hamites rotundus, of Sowerby.